How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia (RSWA). For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Zeebe R E 2010. Journal club. A physicist and biogeochemist gets a kick out of the problem of Brownian motion and diffusion. Nature 466, 1025

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson A K & Phelps E A 2001. Lesions of the human amygdala impair enhanced perception of emotionally salient events. Nature 411, 305–309

A journal article with 3 authors

Whiting M F, Bradler S & Maxwell T 2003. Loss and recovery of wings in stick insects. Nature 421, 264–267

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Zhang H, Liu S, Yuan W, Dong W, Ye A, Xie X, Chen Y, Liu D, Cai W & Mao Y 2014. Inclusion of soil carbon lateral movement alters terrestrial carbon budget in China. Scientific reports 4, 7247

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

PKF International Ltd 2017. Wiley IFRS 2017 Interpretation and Application of IFRS Standards. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Seckbach J, Oren A & Stan-Lotter H, editors 2013. Polyextremophiles: Life Under Multiple Forms of Stress. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Merchant T E 2010. Radiation Therapy in the Management of Retinoblastoma. Pages 55–65 in Rodriguez-Galindo C & Wilson M W, editors Retinoblastoma. Pediatric Oncology. Springer US, Boston, MA

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia.

Blog post

Luntz S 2014. China Outlaws The Eating Of Endangered Animals. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/china-outlaws-eating-endangered-animals/ [Accessed October 30, 2018]

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office 2013. Chemical Assessments: An Agencywide Strategy May Help EPA Address Unmet Needs for Integrated Risk Information System Assessments (GAO-13-369). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Prosky J 2012. Meisner and the problem of character. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Greenhouse L 2005. Supreme Court Could Hear An Alito Case. New York Times A24

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Zeebe 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Anderson & Phelps 2001; Zeebe 2010).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Anderson & Phelps 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Society of Western Australia
ISSN (print)	0035-922X
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